Two days without blogging dont ask me why, I was really busy with settling down, back at school. So what is new? Oh yeah new chicks at the block, and beautiful ones too. Two new Nigerians in my campus, Kingsley and Obina and they speak good pidgin, now that I love about them. Well we did exchange numbers, and well Kingsley is paying me a visit this evening, so yeah, got myself a new friend.

I was also suprised when I discovered that a blog featured me, as the blog of the month. Blog of the Month >> KAZEY JOURNAL Nice. Thank you “Chrono Tron – 100%” thats so sweet of you. I dont know whether I deserve it, but I am really greatful for the featuring, and yes I would follow your advise in relation to my adsense position at the top. By the way, I am not malaysian, I am Nigerian residing in Malaysia.

Well besides that, I just came back from School and I am bit tired, might blog later, but for now I am heading for a rest.

I am working on a download section for the e-books I currently have in my computer. So by Monday there should be an e-book download section on this blog, with lots of e-books, for educational purposes only.

I have a problem as in regards to my software stashing in my hard disk. I am in search of a program that would allow me to keep software in an archive form on a computer with description features etc, I wouldnt mind a server based software, any ideas?

I have cold currently, and the worse thing is I sleep under the air-conditioner, so it is sort of getting worse.

I am currently developing a portal with my co-partner and it has been taking a lot of my time, besides I am lazy at replying e-mails, so please bear with me, If I have not replied your e-mail, I would try to do that today. Please Forgive me.

I did not really blog on major topics this week. I blogged mainly on technology. I also just resumed back to School and this semester does look very promising. Although I am taking only 16 credit hours. I also have watched a lot of movies this week. My movie of the month is Oliver Twist. I really love the cockney English. It is a re-production of the movie of a classical book written by Charles Dickens. I used the book, back when I was in primary 4 as my literature book. It came together with Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

By the way I watched a french movie Banlieue 13, and its superb. It is an uber-stylish and hyper-kinetic martial arts and sci-fi actioner from writer/producer Luc Besson. The special effects and stunts are outstanding. I didnt know French filmakers are good, and well it was produced in 2004, but yet produced well, I must say.

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The roundup of topics I covered this week :

30th January 2006.

The World of payment processors. Under Security,Business, and E-commerce
Payment processors play an important role in the world of E-commerce. It is either you are using it to pay for a product or services or to get paid for offering a product or service.

31st January 2006.

Mind Your E-Mail Manners. Under Tech and wise blabbering’s
Most of us have done it in one way or another. Let our emotions get better of
us in our e-mail. Well here are some suggestions on how to keep your e-mail’s
less annoying.

Blog Worm Under Security, and Jokes
Blog Worm, have you been infected yet?

Dump on annoying sites. Under Humour
Is there a website that really annoys you? Well there is a way of venting
your anger at such a website.

Google visiting the OS world. Under Tech
Google announced its interest in Operating systems, and I am sure the news would provoke Microsoft.

Video Surveillance made easy. Under Gadgets
Worried about people snooping around your workplace, when you are out? Need
to keep an eye out for your kids at home?

1st February 2006.

Gender equality in Chile cabinet. Under World

A cabinet of 10 women and 10 men, fulfilling a campaign promise of equal
opportunity government, was unveiled on Monday in Chile.

Roundup on Rebel threat in Niger Delta. Under Nigeria
Nigeria has not been on had any good news coming from its shores of recent,
and here is a roundup of events related news from the Niger Delta region.

2nd February 2006
Protecting your identity online. Under Security and Software .
Protecting information from leaking to the internet is a necessity,
especially when you partake in daily risky transactions that involve you
visiting sites you do not trust.Tor gives you the assurance that some of your
information would not be leaked out.

Enhancing my desktop the open source way. Under Software
I discovered a very powerful open source desktop Enhancing software, that
just does it, beyond your imagination. The name of the software is SharpE.

I have used a lot of freeware softwares for enhancing my desktop in the past and reading through Dipo’s blog today. I discovered a very powerful opensource desktop Enhancing software, that just does it, beyound your imagination. The name of the software is SharpE.

Website: http://www.sharpe-shell.org

SharpE shell lets you create your own personal user environment on the display screen, but offers many more options for creativity and personalization.

Requirements
SharpE requires a Windows 2k/XP/2003 operating system.
It will not work on Windows9x Operating Systems!

The Environment
SharpE consists of various components that work together in a modular fashion.
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Protecting information from leaking to the internet is a necessity, especially when you partake in daily risky transactions that involve you visiting sites you do not trust. Tor gives you the assurance that some of your information would not be leaked out.

Website: http://tor.eff.org/index.html.en

Tor is software that contains a bundle of applications that helps secure online activity by safe guarding certain information from leaking from your computer to the internet.
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Socialist Michelle Bachelet, would be swon in as Chile’s first woman president in March 11. The interesting thing about this is, a cabinet of 10 women and 10 men, fullfilling a campaign promise of equal opportunity government, was unveiled on Monday.

It seems the pledge to narrow the gap between rich and the poor and also help in the improvement of the status of women in Chile is going to see the light of the day.

Dec 20: Bombing of pipeline killed 11 people.
Jan 11: Four Shell oil workers kidnapped-released Jan 30 without ransom payment.
Jan 11: Oil pipeline blown up
Jan 15: Speedboat attack on Shell platform.
Jan 24: Nine people killed in attack on offices of an Italian oil firm Agip.
Jan 29: Rebels attack HQ of South Korea’s Daewoo oil company.

It does not just end there, current barrel production of Nigeria per day is now 2.19 million which makes Nigeria rank 8th position in global production.

The question I have is:-
Is this attack justified for the so called cause?
Does this do any good to Nigerian’s reputation in the global community?
Does the government of Nigeria have plans in seeing an end to this malice?
Is Nigeria a safe place to live?

It disheartens me, to see Nigeria embrace democracy and still be facing problems that threaten peace and harmony to the people living within its territory. Where is the love?

Google annouced its interest in Operating systems, and I am sure the news would provoke Microsoft. Google said, it is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop in a project called Goobuntu. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop.This is indeed a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business – desktop software.

What I dont understand is, isn’t the race in building an internet empire occupying enough? I think google is getting too ambitious. How about if they become successful in making it to be able to execute windows based applications? What would happen. Would that trigger an aggressive feedback from Microsoft? Well that would also be good news to the opensource community.

Anywayz lets wait and see.

News can be read, HERE.